Swift Package Manager and Capacitor

Capacitor 8 will introduce Swift Package Manager (SPM) as a first-class dependency manager alongside CocoaPods, which enters maintenance mode in 2026. New Capacitor projects will default to SPM, while existing projects can migrate using the CLI's swift-migration-assistant tool. All Ionic-maintained plugins support SPM, but third-party plugins need updates. The capacitor-plugin-converter tool helps automate plugin conversion for Swift-only plugins, though mixed Objective-C/Swift plugins require manual conversion. Projects cannot mix SPM and CocoaPods, so developers must choose one approach.